Troy> How is memory pinning handled? (I haven't had time to read Troy> all the code, so please excuse my ignorance of something Troy> obvious).
The userspace library calls mlock() and then the kernel does get_user_pages().
Why do you call mlock() and get_user_pages()? In our code, we only call mlock(), and the memory is pinned. We have a test case that fails if only get_user_pages() is called, but it passes if only mlock() is called.
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